Numbers 14:40

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And early in the morning they got up and went to the top of the mountain, saying, We are here and we will go up to the place which the Lord said he would give us: for we have done wrong.

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 1:41 : 41 Then you said to me, We have done evil against the Lord, we will go up to the attack, as the Lord our God has given us orders. And arming yourselves every one, you made ready to go up without care into the hill-country.
  • Eccl 9:3 : 3 This is evil in all things which are done under the sun: that there is one fate for all, and the hearts of the sons of men are full of evil; while they have life their hearts are foolish, and after that--to the dead.
  • Matt 7:21-23 : 21 Not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord, will go into the kingdom of heaven; but he who does the pleasure of my Father in heaven. 22 A great number will say to me on that day, Lord, Lord, were we not prophets in your name, and did we not by your name send out evil spirits, and by your name do works of power? 23 And then will I say to them, I never had knowledge of you: go from me, you workers of evil.
  • Matt 26:11-12 : 11 For the poor you have ever with you, but me you have not for ever. 12 For in putting this perfume on my body, she did it to make me ready for my last resting-place.
  • Luke 13:25 : 25 When the master of the house has got up, and the door has been shut, and you, still outside, give blows on the door, saying, Lord, let us in; he will make answer and say, I have no knowledge of where you come from.

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    41 And Moses said, Why are you now acting against the Lord's order, seeing that no good will come of it?

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    39 And when Moses put these words before the children of Israel, the people were full of grief.

  • Exod 32:30
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    30 And on the day after, Moses said to the people, Great has been your sin: but I will go up to the Lord, and see if I may get forgiveness for your sin.

  • Deut 1:40-41
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    40 But as for you, go back, journeying into the waste land by the way of the Red Sea.

    41 Then you said to me, We have done evil against the Lord, we will go up to the attack, as the Lord our God has given us orders. And arming yourselves every one, you made ready to go up without care into the hill-country.

  • Exod 34:2
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    2 And be ready by the morning, and come up on Mount Sinai, and come before me there in the morning, on the top of the mountain.

  • Num 14:44
    75%

    44 But they gave no attention to his words and went to the top of the mountain, though Moses and the ark of the Lord's agreement did not go out of the tent-circle.

  • Deut 1:43
    74%

    43 This I said to you, but you gave no attention and went against the orders of the Lord, and in your pride went up into the hill-country.

  • Num 14:26
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    26 Then the Lord said to Moses and Aaron,

  • Num 16:25
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    25 So Moses got up and went to Dathan and Abiram, and the responsible men of Israel went with him.

  • Exod 16:7
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    7 And in the morning you will see the glory of the Lord; for your angry words against the Lord have come to his ears: and what are we that you are crying out against us?

  • Exod 19:20
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    20 Then the Lord came down on to Mount Sinai, to the top of the mountain, and the Lord sent for Moses to come up to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up.

  • Exod 14:11
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    11 And they said to Moses, Was there no resting-place for the dead in Egypt, that you have taken us away to come to our death in the waste land? why have you taken us out of Egypt?

  • Judg 10:15
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    15 And the children of Israel said to the Lord, We are sinners; do to us whatever seems good to you: only give us salvation this day.

  • Num 14:1-2
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    1 Then all the people gave load cries of grief, and all that night they gave themselves up to weeping.

    2 And all the children of Israel, crying out against Moses and Aaron, said, If only we had come to our death in the land of Egypt, or even in this waste land!

  • Exod 19:17
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    17 And Moses made the people come out of their tents and take their places before God; and they came to the foot of the mountain,

  • Exod 24:15
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    15 And Moses went up into the mountain, and it was covered by the cloud.

  • Exod 24:18
    72%

    18 And Moses went up the mountain, into the cloud, and was there for forty days and forty nights.

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    19 Then we went on from Horeb, through all that great and cruel waste which you saw, on our way to the hill-country of the Amorites, as the Lord gave us orders; and we came to Kadesh-barnea.

  • 1 Sam 14:10
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    10 But if they say, Come up to us; then we will go up, for the Lord has given them into our hands: and this will be the sign to us.

  • Deut 1:26-27
    2 verses
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    26 But going against the order of the Lord your God, you would not go up:

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  • Num 14:4-5
    2 verses
    72%

    4 And they said to one another, Let us make a captain over us, and go back to Egypt.

    5 Then Moses and Aaron went down on their faces before the meeting of the people.

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    15 And now, O Lord our God, who took your people out of the land of Egypt with a strong hand and made a great name for yourself even to this day; we are sinners, we have done evil.

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    14 And now you have come to take the place of your fathers, another generation of sinners, increasing the wrath of the Lord against Israel.

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    13 Then Moses and Joshua his servant got up; and Moses went up into the mountain of God.

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    2 verses
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    2 And when they had gone away from Rephidim and had come into the waste land of Sinai, they put up their tents in the waste land before the mountain: there Israel put up its tents.

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    12 Then Moses sent for Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab: and they said, We will not come up:

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    1 And the Lord said to Moses,

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    22 And they went on from Kadesh, and came, with all their people, to Mount Hor.

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    11 Then Aaron said to Moses, O my lord, let not our sin be on our heads, for we have done foolishly and are sinners.

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    27 But we will go three days' journey into the waste land and make an offering to the Lord our God as he may give us orders.

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    23 And Moses said to the Lord, The people will not be able to come up the mountain, for you gave us orders to put limits round the mountain, marking it out and making it holy.

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